32 Year Old Ready to Get Her Body Back - Lutherville Timonium, MD

I have found this sight extremely helpful in this nerve wracking process of elective surgery. Therefore even though I am a very private person I am putting this out there so it may serve other women and their comparisons.

To start; I have three incredible children ages 10, 8, and 2. They were all delivered by c-section. I gained 80 lbs for the 1st one, 60 for the 2nd and 40 for the last one. I nursed them all averaging a year and half for each. They are beautiful, happy, healthy and thank God they are cute because they ravaged my body. Nursing is wonderful and I highly recommend it but it dropped me from a healthy B cup to a floppy A cup. Also with their substantial size and the weight I gained I lost the connection of muscle tissue down the center of my abdomen. This has lead to a weakness that becomes more evident the more I work out. In fact I was urged by my doctor to decrease my workouts to prevent the presentation of a hernia. After my last child was born I lost all the weight and then some as I did after the previous pregnancies. However this time I developed a very defined pot belly look that I had not had before. I love running, yoga and crosstraining. But the more I worked out the more prego like I looked. Lets face it my body never looked the same after my 1st child but now I was being forced out of fitness at which point I determined this was the time to seek help.

After much consideration I found Dr. Basner who is great, straightforward, and understanding. Reviewing his work has me confident that my results will be wonderful. Though as all of you can relate there is a level of trepidation through this whole process not matter how confident you are in your surgeon and your decisions. So here are some comparable stats: I am 5'4" 135 lbs I am going to have a mommy makeover with a full tummy tuck, lipo of the flanks and 405ccs (silicone moderate plus profile) subpectoral breast augmentation. I am certain I am going to be ecstatic with the tummy tuck but I must admit I am scared I am going overboard with the size of the breast implant. I do have a broad build so I hope I will carry it well. I know my husband will be the incredibly happy. I just hope it will not interfere with my fitness routine. Any reassurance in this regard would be welcome to hear. I look forward to carrying on with this review and post the recovery process. In which case I will be in touch soon.

...before my surgery!!! The excitement and trepidation is getting to me. I am trying to put on such a easy going appearance for everyone but my mind is constantly processing what is in store for me on Friday. Am I choosing the right size for the BA? How is my body going to handle this recovery? How are my children and husband going to handle themselves during my recovery?

I have been away from home on one last vacation with my family before I am out of commission. We return thursday night. When I left home most things were in order. My meds, extra bandaging, scar cream, borrowed a recliner and have a wardrobe full of my sweatpants and zip front tops ready to go. I think I'm ready : / any diet recommendations would be great. I'll need to make a grocery list for the hubbie while I'm in surgery. I have low sodium soups and jello but that's it.

I am trying not to vent my obsession with this surgery with anyone but my husband who at this point has said he will be happy to get a break from seeing breasts for a long long time. I did call my PS office and his assistant was very reassuring that I am going with the right size and helped ease my concerns. Everyone at his office is very nice they have been a pleasure to work with. Well the next time I post here will probably be post op. Wish me luck.

It has been done! I could barely sleep last night I was way too excited. I must have checked and rechecked my mental to do list over a hundred times. When the 6:00 rolled around I took a nice shower knowing it will be my last for a while. I picked up and squeezed on my little one, one last time and was out the door.

Once at the surgery center I was greeted by Dr. Basners lovely soothing reassuring staff. They went over some details with me. Dr. Basner answered all of my concerns and marked me up. When he was done I had thought to myself I could have gone for the extra cheesecake every day I was on vacation last month he intended to lipo all of my trouble spots : ) The experience as a whole was very pleasant. By comparison to my previous c-section surgeries were the staff was really cold and a little condescending. I went to "sleep" peacefully; but then I awoke not knowing where I was with a bad case of shakes and feeling like I did a thousand crunches. That has been the worst the pain I felt so far from this procedure. I'm at home now with on a pain scale of one to ten I'm at a 3.